Better than Starship Troopers Extermination?

[Madmonkey68]

So I was around when the hype for Starship Troopers Extermination was on. Game was fun but went back to it after a while, didnt have much content and just didn't feel the buzz anymore.

Do you think Helldivers 2 will reignite the flame? What are the differences between the two games and does this game have enough content for the long run?

Interested in what you guys have to say

[♛Los Pollos♛]

100%, Starship in my opinion was very lame like so much content was missing. Helldivers2 feels like a complete game already by release.

[Mosey]

The Starship Trooper game is...not very engaging for me. Bought into it day one and it quickly lost my interest with how garbage the base building is.

Twenty people trying to build a base is just so very, very dumb.

[Kalenath]

Extermination versus Helldivers 2?

A) 16 player co-op versus 4 player co-op.
B) Starship Troopers franchise versus a new and different IP
C) Games filled with TK because no one cares enough to watch where they are aiming versus games filled with TK because it is part of the IP
D) Ammo is plentiful versus ammo is scarce
E) Idiots at extraction farming 1XP per kill for 2 minutes so no one can extract versus idiots at extraction ragdolling the Pelican so no one can extract

Honestly?

*shrug*

As long as you are having fun, does it matter? I have more fun with Helldivers 2, but I had fun at times in Extermination.

[Roland]

Originally posted by Madmonkey68:

So I was around when the hype for Starship Troopers Extermination was on. Game was fun but went back to it after a while, didnt have much content and just didn't feel the buzz anymore.

Do you think Helldivers 2 will reignite the flame? What are the differences between the two games and does this game have enough content for the long run?

Interested in what you guys have to say

It's different; like very different.
Stratagems add a dynamic that makes it a wholly different game.
It's way less milsim is the best way I can put it. So it really depends on what you seek.
With the current state of SSTE, this has a longer grind; but obviously SSTE is about to get a massive overhaul and this is getting monthly Warbonds from what i hear, so this could all change in a couple weeks.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a redheaded stepchild in the eyes of OWI. It was a Squad mod. And sadly now as a standalone game, it sits in the corner while Squad gets all the attention.

STE's biggest problem is who owns it. It'll never get a chance to spread its wings. Helldivers completely mogged it.

[♛Los Pollos♛]

if you liked starship troopers, you will absolutely love helldivers2.

[VelxraTV]

As being one of the five people who post on the SST steam forums. Largely favoring HD2 now. Yes this thread title is accurate. SST's devs destroyed their game by ignoring the fanbase and imposing a wipe that has been delayed half a year. While offering content far too slowly that quickly loses interest. HD2 offers thrice the content out of the gate and devs ignore "for everyone gimmicks" instead favoring content directly for the fans.

One game has a 500 player peak right now. While the other is sitting around 450k players. I wonder which company is losing money and which is having a massive net gain.


Also if the HD2 devs wanted. They could easily enough make a 16 player horde defense mode for this game. Which would be very interesting.

[Madmonkey68]

How is performance?

[Roland]

Originally posted by Madmonkey68:

How is performance?

I have a 5 year old GTX 1660 OC and I struggle to maintain but can consistently hit 60 fps on a mix of low and medium settings at 1080p.

The planets vary in scenery and thus lighting effects so it will vary from planet to planet. Some it's easy for me to stay pretty much at 60, while others I spend more time closer to 52.

[VelxraTV]

Originally posted by Madmonkey68:

How is performance?

Terrible in SST, somehow their game went from 80 fps to 20-30 fps on most all machines. While also enduring a degraded experience from the servers causing massive stutters and teleporting/rubberbanding in every match.

[Eudicots]

Starship Troopers is fun, but its bare bones. Helldivers 2 already has more content available than starship troopers and has better performance. After 20 hours of starship troopers I already feel like I have tried everything the game had to offer, while Helldivers I am 70 hours in and I am still trying different combinations.

[GravePC]

They are equally broken games which desperately need improvement.

[Sea Base]

Originally posted by Sir Seanicus, Esq.:

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a redheaded stepchild in the eyes of OWI. It was a Squad mod. And sadly now as a standalone game, it sits in the corner while Squad gets all the attention.

STE's biggest problem is who owns it. It'll never get a chance to spread its wings. Helldivers completely mogged it.

And even Squad is a mess of technical debt, lack of balance, performance issues ect ect, only existing in the vacuum of a lack of a real Battlefield. OWI cannot fail to exist quick enough, they are incompetent at every level.

[Lucky Cat]

I find Starship Troopers Extermination good but because of the slow progress of its development, its leaving less and less hope it may become a good game, it certainly has the grounds of one but it needs the dedication and even money can't help here. I think a lot of the issues really rose when they introduced the new game engine middle of its transition, and the introduction of the newer planet really made it far buggier to play. With Helldivers 2, it is easily comparable to say that Helldivers 2 had the lesser buggier launch while Starship Troopers Extermination ended up feeling worse somehow.

I won't knock that Starship Troopers Extermination is worth getting, I just think it needs more attention which it fails to do in adequate time. Arrowhead Studios are able to rush within a day to patch their glitches and bugs, maybe it does fix something or break something else but they're QUICK to figure it out which I have more faith in them compare to the sluggishly slow development of another game.

[VelxraTV]

Originally posted by Sea Base:

Originally posted by Sir Seanicus, Esq.:

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a redheaded stepchild in the eyes of OWI. It was a Squad mod. And sadly now as a standalone game, it sits in the corner while Squad gets all the attention.

STE's biggest problem is who owns it. It'll never get a chance to spread its wings. Helldivers completely mogged it.

And even Squad is a mess of technical debt, lack of balance, performance issues ect ect, only existing in the vacuum of a lack of a real Battlefield. OWI cannot fail to exist quick enough, they are incompetent at every level.

They got bought out by other companies. The original modder minds are out of the picture. Which is why the company is failing and having massive cutbacks. Which shows in all their games.